the, since you're a pretty fast surface survey here, i hope it works out despise the obstacle, is, is of interest to follow, to set up a whole image and the future of russia, which she's determined to have a say, you know, it is often described as nato is that today's hill, a strip of suppress the populated headlined stress in some 65 lumens s on the border between the native states planned on the 20th. there's a walk. the gap is a challenge for nato to defend the strip connects. the russian exclaimed, coming in grad with bell. i was i for russia. and, but i was, we're about to innovate on close that gap. nathan members between the lads, the as sonya will be cut off from allies to the south. get abused, have issues travel through this a walking gap with british naval troops on exercise. these nato troops based in poland, are moving through what the alliance considers, perhaps, is most vulnerable area,

a land court or nick named this lucky gap. it's located between 2 nato allies, poland and lithuania, but also between russia and developers. this is cause for concern because it's the only way for nato to reach its baltic state allies by land. there is any way, one way to get to latvia and that is alt through lithuania. and this will okey doke . that means if moscow were to seize the sa walkie cord or lobby, and the other baltic states would be cut off and could only be reached by sea. the commanding officer of this british squadron on his way to an exercise in latvia, says training in the region is vital for us going up to lot via provides a new real estate, new training opportunity. uh, the opportunity to go up against a live simulated estimate which, which puts my soldiers to the test. some of those tests are just about getting troops to where they need to be. this con boy had 3 vehicles breakdown causing many hours of delay. but parker says, figuring out how to get them back on the road was part of the training. he wanted

his troops to get an overnight at the nato bass. in lithuania, gave the british troops a chance to rest and refilled their tags, hosted by german army. lieutenant colonel andre is kiersten, are 2 commands, the multi national battle group keeping watch from the other end of this walking cord or we conduct the trainings in order to be prepared for us and noble russian forces are crossing the border onto the plane. yeah, yeah, mobility is always very crucial for me to of informations, and of course it's a strong sign to show that we are not sitting in a little better expect to be able to move between the baltic states. they're able to move, but could they move faster than russian forces? that's an open question. nato may not be doing enough to answer this. motorcade had a police escort to guarantee access to the highway and click processing at the border crossings. but in case of a real, i says fewer things would be under nato's control. and that's why some experts are saying the alliance and stage more snap exercises to practice what might happen if

russia were to attack with no warning to experience that need those former top military commander general phillip breedlove strongly advocates more no noticed exercises in so walk and beyond which would push troops in his words, to failure, to come back stronger. we need to give our forces hard problems to solve and force them to think outside the box. it's more than getting to an exercise area and setting up camp, we need to be tested in the quiet city of so walky residents are a custom to hearing such talk, especially after russia launched warren ukraine. some are dismissive, others thankful the worst case scenarios so far remain just hypotheses of war, gaming and planning. i think there is nothing to worry about. i see that others say, oh lou, be terrified that it can, like a swell happened to us,

the flu went in and they talked at the situation with the be completely different probably we, we would be attacked. nato military officials acknowledge a more aggressive russia means they need to increase their readiness for any potential crisis, which includes making sure so lucky remains an open core door and is less of a gap. okay, let's go back to, i'll tell starting now about the ad quaid federal authority say has killed at least 800 people in central morocco. we cannot connect with host l. chicago. we the regional director for middle east on north africa at the international federation of red cross and red christian societies. he joins us from the east capital b would hello and welcome to dw, say, what can you tell us about the extent of the damage in the areas affected by this last week? and thank you for shining the spotlight on this. yes, the damage reports are coming in our by our clearly this is severe in terms of

casualties. and physical damage to feature is not fully known, yet. it may take up to 48 hours as these are extremely remote locations. and much of the access is not available because their own network has to be damaged. there is rapid mobilize ation. now there are some priorities. now our search and rescue efforts to get people who are trumped under the road, including the immediate emergency medical assistance and 1st state, most of those expertise, the remote, but also to the survivors. there are many injured women and children, elderly and saw. so we're working with multiple funds. it is as always in these situations, raised to be as time survivors named water and shelter. it is cold through these mountainous regions as well. uh, with my phone coming in. um,

so were mobilizing cheese support, some were all kind of red crescent. their volunteers have been on the ground from the very 1st hours long in the civil defense and broken army. so he is now a bit of chaos to be sure will be clearer, perhaps in the coming days and were mobilizing the international assistance to support the local assist. okay. yeah, we're gonna, we're gonna talk uh briefly about the sorts of international systems that is needed . but you set out by talking about some of the challenges about to relieve teams that face, including access to some of the west head areas that tell us more about the challenges. as of course, as difficult, the roads are blocked there be the rock slice and land slides at the best of times these roads or not uh, easily accessible. so that's number one. the yeah, with now the, just the support from the military, the moroccan military,

the helicopters and saw that was improved as the day progresses. and then we need to get the people that are expert cases to safety to hospitals and provide the medical care. understandably, this is major business date, right. on the 1st, at a 100 years, they have seen such a mass of earthly, it will be over well, any responses. and therefore, they're distributing now the assistance of breeding and assistance funds across the country that they're distributing those for be needing medical attention to different parts of the country. that's their job. or we're coming in to support that mobilization telecommunication networks, or down electrical grids or down and so on. and this further complicates of course the systems and getting the excavation equipment where it needs to be done and the medical rest of the teams where they need. okay, so i mean it's a lot of work. that's why international suspense is needed to tell us more about that as well as the,

as far as i know his law officially yet requested, then we have this a beta to come in the next hour or so don't clearly assessing. they're trying themselves to come to grips with, with the, the, the situation, understandably many are so shocked with this, with this context. we already are receiving as the international federation of red crossman across, in many offers from right across as in europe. right. across sense, around the causes an off of the world of us and other parts of the world as far as japan and china and so on. we welcome that. and now we're just trying to determine the priorities day by day and coordinate that assistance. okay. the worst thing is to send coordinate systems. so this industry will become clear. busy is chaos now. right. well some also collie with international federation of red cross on red crescent societies. thank you very much for your time. thank you. now that's not africans who lita mangle,

so to with the lazy has died at the age of $95.00. his death was announced by precedence over i'm opposed to who described him as an outstanding leader and said he was southern by his pass and with an easy was the found out of the in contact for you don't potty is we do political and cultural movements with nearly 2000000 members alongside for my president's nelson, my data, he was a key for a guy in south africa as transformation for me. why to pop? i'd states into a multi racial democracy in the 19 ninety's from on. does that spring in dw correspondence, diane hawkeye, indiana is back? hello diane. many people in the world knew nelson mondale as a man who ended up outside in south africa. so what role that with an easy on his spot to play in the struggle? well, definitely nelson mandela would be one of the most prominent political leaders. but there's no doubt that with today's he paid a significant role in the south african context. and even from a global perspective, you know,

the particular area was very difficult time in which the rights of, of blacks, of africans were disenfranchised. and he spent a lot of time in lobbying full action to be taken both internally and externally. and he spoke out against the atrocities committed by the a party government. he for example, visited the united states in, in the, in the 1980s to lobby against the cold for the to be the sections against countries operating in south africa. but simultaneously saying that the global community should get involved and do something about what was going on under the part a government. so i think he has a complex history and, and, and one that i think many people would say, has, you know, positives and negatives to it. but definitely a strong political leader in the country. and someone who has traversed time from

applied take into democratic south africa talking about complex history with an easy and nelson mandela did not see eye to eye during the struggle against the pop side. why was that the case? and what were the consequences? as there was typically strong ideological differences between the 2 lazy and monday law and the those they went through to the parties and you'll view at the view as my to pull that in the early ninety's. there was quite a lot of silence in the period leading up to sub africa's democratic transition. and a lot of that violence was between the i is p n a and c members who are in dispute about how the negotiation should take place. and also the role that homelands should play in the homelands were the, the areas that were provision originally designated by the apply to aid state for different cultural groups. and there was

a disagreement about how those homeland lands should be incorporated into the democratic states. it was a view that they should be a certain amount of autonomy and that caused a lot of friction leading up to those 1994 elections. ultimately, there was a resolution and for tennessee was actually included in nelson mandela's, a cabinet. but that doesn't mean that they hasn't been, you know, beyond that a conflicts between the amc and the i ip even to the stay. yeah. it'll be a corresponding van, hawkeye. and you're on his back. thank you. thank you. just for to now and there has been a big upsets of the bands. basketball was caught in the philippines gemini stun into us when in by just 2 points to reach the fast world cup final front. bog. now that the wave for germany, the orlando magic, got 22 points, made a huge contribution to his sides when germany now please have you in sundays final and i've already bets at the previous best of that phase in 2000. and 2,

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